Front-page Provincetown Advocate report on the feminist plaintiffs' withdrawal from the Cape Cod class action against Interior Secretary Donald Hodel. Quotes the women's joint statement in full force: the suit "stresses the violation of nudists' First Amendment rights... but pays scant attention to the rights of feminists," and the regulation's "unmistakable gender discrimination, based on male-defined mores and a sexist definition of 'nudity', is the issue that our demonstrations were meant to challenge." Includes the statement's key line: "Some of us have come to realize that shirt-free rights for women and First Amendment rights for nudists are incompatible legal strategies when used in the same case." Names withdrawing plaintiffs Craft, Gabriel Brooke, Laurel Brooke, and Diane Fabbri; reports that Craft, arrested three times at the Seashore since 1984, never got to argue her case because the Seashore dropped charges each time she demanded a U.S. District Court hearing; notes the Naturist Society, headed by Lee Baxandall, spent over $30,000 on the case. Craft: "The battle will be fought on the streets rather than in the courts." Continuation page included. Part of the Nikki Craft Archival Project.

First: this is the Provincetown Advocate — the newspaper Abs145 at Wikipedia declared nonexistent — covering the withdrawal on its front page. Second: "incompatible legal strategies" in the women's own 1988 joint statement is the co-optation thesis stated verbatim at the time; both articles should quote it in the final edit.